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1940: Inauguration of the Exposição do Mundo Português in Belém, Lisbon. Designed to celebrate the eighth centenary of Portuguese independence and the third centenary of the Restoration, the world fair builds the Padrão dos Descobrimentos and a new model 'aldeia portuguesa', staging the Estado Novo's vision of a pluricontinental empire even as the Second World War rages across Europe.

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1314: The army of Robert the Bruce defeats a much larger English force under Edward II at the Battle of Bannockburn, near Stirling. The victory secures Scottish independence for nearly three centuries and remains one of the foundational moments of Scottish national identity.

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